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PEARY-William Herbert Hobbs-Macmillan ($5). A frosty account of Admiral Peary's eight polar expeditions, in which the author's partisanship is concentrated on riddling Dr. Cook's rival claim as discoverer of the North Pole...
...city's leading bankers delivered last week by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. "The decision of France to readjust the value of the franc," said Mr. Chamberlain, "must have come like the cracking of the ice at the approach of a warmer season to a polar explorer whose ship has been frozen for months into immobility. ... If we can prevent violent fluctuations of the valuation of gold as ex pressed in terms of commodities, I see no insuperable obstacles in the way of our ultimately arriving at a currency system based on free exchange of gold. . . . We will...
...Charcot came to feel that his true calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot...
...July 1935, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste Charcot took the Pourqnoi Pas once more out of St. Malo, bound for Greenland. Said he then: "This voyage will be my last." Objectives were to bring back a party of scientists, make additional studies of the polar current and more extensive deep-sea soundings, visit a settleent of Eskimos unknown to Europeans. The explorer was expected in Copenhagen late this month to attend a reception in his honor, receive a gold medal...
Emerson, after drifting in & out of misfortune, losing his first wife and two of his brothers, drifting into & out of tuberculosis, into & out of the ministry, was finding contentment in Concord, where he conversed with simple neighbors, read Oriental literature, wrote his poems of "polar splendor, as of an aurora borealis," found honor in scamps, justice in thieves, energy in beggars, elegance in peasants, even benevolence in misers and grandeur in porters and sweeps. In Newport, traditional home of Tories, toasts were still drunk to the King and culture was crippled by an affected admiration for English writing. In Connecticut...